MhqP

• Description: may be involved in protection against methyl-hydroquinone
  
  

Gene name	mhqP
Synonyms	ydfP
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	may be involved in protection against methyl-hydroquinone
MW, pI	13 kDa, 8.62
Gene length, protein length	387 bp, 129 aa
Immediate neighbours	mhqO, ydfQ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU05500

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), resistance against oxidative and electrophile stress

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P96694

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • mhqN-mhqO-mhqP PubMed
  • mhqO-mhqP PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • mhqN: SigA PubMed
  • mhqO: SigB PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by catechol and 2-methylhydroquinone (MhqR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • MhqR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Stefanie Töwe, Montira Leelakriangsak, Kazuo Kobayashi, Nguyen Van Duy, Michael Hecker, Peter Zuber, Haike Antelmann
The MarR-type repressor MhqR (YkvE) regulates multiple dioxygenases/glyoxalases and an azoreductase which confer resistance to 2-methylhydroquinone and catechol in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(1);40-54
[PubMed:17725564] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Van Duy Nguyen, Carmen Wolf, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Lalk, Peter Langer, Ulrike Lindequist, Michael Hecker, Haike Antelmann
Transcriptome and proteome analyses in response to 2-methylhydroquinone and 6-brom-2-vinyl-chroman-4-on reveal different degradation systems involved in the catabolism of aromatic compounds in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(9);1391-408
[PubMed:17407181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C W Price, P Fawcett, H Cérémonie, N Su, C K Murphy, P Youngman
Genome-wide analysis of the general stress response in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 41(4);757-74
[PubMed:11532142] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)